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Topic: "White" Pedal Steel Guitar |
Peter Gaughan
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Posted 21 Jan 2024 1:14 pm |
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Hello!
New member here, 38 year old from the UK. Grew up with my folks listening to classic 50s/60s/70s country. As I grew up I heavily followed the 90s onwards country and am still equally appreciative of either eras of music, mostly based on the steel, fiddle or guitar content and players on the record.
Messed around with a telecaster all my life at home, following the likes of Brent Mason and co, but I loved the sound of the steel. Started basing my music on what Paul Franklin was recording on. So about 15/16 years ago I bought this pedal steel on ebay. I set it up and attempted to play but of course, life got in the way with work/house/kids and it was left gathering dust until I decided to get it out last year, when I started my journey.
Its a standard emmons setup, just put a set of daddario NYXL strings on it, and I'm in loving trying to learn and happy with the sounds and tones that I'm getting. I have a teal stripe peavey bandit 112 but am mostly playing it through a Fender G-DEC with the Fender tweed clean model with plenty of reverb!
Doing the whole youtube thing but also trying to get to grips with the theory as much as I can.
I dont know much about the history of this guitar, and of course if I search for "white" or "green white pedal steel" all I get is search results on Lloyd Green or Tommy White!
Anyone on here can shed light on this guitar? Was this a popular brand, well known?
Thanks!
Peter
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Frank Freniere
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The First Coast
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Posted 21 Jan 2024 1:58 pm
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| Looks like a helluva nice ZB - Google Zane Beck. |
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Eric Dahlhoff
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Point Arena, California
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Posted 21 Jan 2024 6:00 pm Mystery Steel
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Welcome to the Forum Peter! 
Show some pics of the underside please!
It does look ZB-ish in some ways. But I'm going to bet that who ever made it just styled it that way.
Are the nuts & bolts metric or American?
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Lee Baucum
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McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Lee Baucum
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Lee Baucum
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Peter Gaughan
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United Kingdom
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Posted 23 Jan 2024 11:18 am
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Thanks for the replies..
Thnaks Lee, looks like coming from this side of the Atlantic it must be a Cliff White, but no serial numbers or markings.
I have attached some pics of the underside. Only nuts I can see appear to be 5mm. The RKL was never missing/damaged when I got it and the RKR lowers string 2 down a full step.
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Lee Baucum
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McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 23 Jan 2024 11:51 am
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Hmm. I wonder if this was made by one of the Cliff Whites of Dover....
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
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Christopher Hillman
From:
Manchester, UK
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Posted 29 Jan 2024 2:01 pm
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| Hi Peter, the 'White' looks great! I'm starting to wonder if it's my old Pedal Steel. I sold mine (that looked identical) on ebay in 2010ish and I think it went off to London. I'll try and find a photo. |
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